As a leading designer and manufacturer of shelving for a wide range of industries, we take immense pride in only using the highest quality materials for our products. When choosing the right shelving, you need it to really deliver on what you’d expect from a quality piece of equipment, and by choosing Craven, you can be confident that you’re investing in exceptional quality and durability.
As we take pride in the materials we use to create our products, we wanted to give you a bit more of an insight as to why we choose aluminium for some of our shelving products. With so many benefits from the strength of the material to its recyclability, it’s safe to say that it’s a great choice for our catalogue of products.
1. Shelving at its strongest
With our shelving products being used to store a variety of items and large quantities of stock for clients, we need them to be the strongest they can be, without being too heavy or difficult to assemble. Aluminium shelving is known for its strength to withstand weighted products and you can be confident that aluminium shelving from Craven won’t let you down.
2. Can withstand varying temperatures
Suitable for cold rooms, food areas and sterile storage areas, our aluminium shelving can cater for practically any use. With its ability to withstand a range of temperatures, this particular shelving is perfect for catering, medical and healthcare, retail and pharmaceutical industries, as well as many more. If you have a specific question about what is best for your environment, speak to the Craven team.
3. Durable and robust
Many of our clients are amazed with just how long their shelving lasts, which is thanks to how well aluminium can withstand wear and tear over the years. Our aluminium shelving is corrosion resistant, immune to UV rays and even weather-proof, so no matter where you need your storage, you can be confident it delivers to your exact requirements.
4. Fully recyclable
The sustainability of our products is also important to us, and we always make sure our products are as environmentally friendly as possible. Our aluminium shelving is fully recyclable, but lasts as long as you need it to. We also remain a thoroughly British manufacturer, with approximately 95% of our products designed and produced in Knaresborough to the highest standards in the most eco-friendly manner.
5. Flexible and lightweight
One of the best features of our aluminum shelving is that its flexibility makes it incredibly versatile. This means that alongside our standard product range, we also offer OEM and bespoke solutions to match specific storage and handling requirements. The material is also lightweight making it easier to transport and assemble too.
Need a shelving solution that won’t let you down?
Using our expertise and experience of more than 60 years, combined with the latest technologies, we offer space-saving design and innovation in storage and handling. If you’re looking for the right shelving for a specific purpose, browse our website for our standard range or get in touch with us regarding any bespoke projects. You can reach us on 01423 796 200 or email us at info@craven-solutions.com.
We cater for a wide range of industries at Craven and in the past, we’ve helped so many businesses with their storage and handling solutions. The bakery sector, in particular, has a need for robust products that never let them down when transporting baked goods, organising ingredients or when displaying products to sell.
We have hundreds of products well suited to the bakery industry, and to help you make the right choice, we’ve put together a list of some of our most popular that have helped bakeries across the country with all their storage, handling and shelving needs.
Aluminium Shelving
Our aluminium shelving is the perfect choice for organising ingredients in dry storage or temperature-controlled environments. It’s lightweight, versatile and an affordable choice, without compromising on quality. This shelving has removable infill panels that are dishwasher safe, allowing easy regular cleaning, and is available in 3 or 4 tiers as standard.
Bakery Trolleys
Our bakery trolleys aren’t just suitable for bakeries, but for all kitchen and catering environments too. This trolley has been purposely designed to hold the universal Euro norm bakery tray size 600 x 400 and is made from 304-grade stainless steel. It’s the ideal solution for transporting hot goods around a busy kitchen or cooling multiple items in the same place. For more information about our bakery trolleys, get in touch with us.
Bakery Grid
Also made from 304-grade stainless steel, our Bakery Grids are high-quality, flat wire grids, designed to be used with our Bakery Trolleys as already described. They’re ideal products to hold your baked goods for any length of time. Get in touch with us if you think our grids or trolleys can help you.
Display Shelving
Affordable and robust, our display shelving is perfect for any catering environment. The bright and attractive chrome finish makes this particular shelving perfect for displaying goods to customers and is used frequently in point of sale.
We have a wide range of catering and bakery products in our catalogue, but if you’re after something a little more bespoke, we can help. Here at Craven, we use our expertise and experience of more than 60years to design bespoke solutions for a wide range of clients. We are continually investing in new technologies to enable us to create and manufacture original, innovative and unique products.
For more information about any of our products, or you’d like to discuss a new project with us, get in touch with the team today on 01423 796 200 or email us at info@craven-solutions.com
Here at Craven, we’re very active in supporting charities and we wanted to place a little focus
on one of them this month to mark the start of the Annual Poppy Appeal – the Royal British
Legion.
The Royal British Legion is the country’s largest Armed Forces charity, with 235,000 members,
110,000 volunteers and a network of partners and charities helping give support wherever and
whenever it’s needed. They provide lifelong support to serving and ex-serving personnel and
their families.
From providing expert advice and guidance, to recovery and rehabilitation, through to
transitioning to civilian life – the Royal British Legion can be by their side every step of the way.
Craven’s local Knaresborough branch manages to raise over £30,000 in Poppy sales for the four
weeks of the Annual Poppy Appeal, which is an amazing achievement for us seeing as this is one
of the Legion’s smaller branches! Due to the amount of Poppies it takes to raise this kind of
money, this means lots of storage is needed.
To give the charity even more support, we provided them with some free office space and
storage facilities, including a number of our Zinc Chromate 4 Tier Shelving Bays which made
storing equipment and stock much more efficient for them.
This is a great charity doing extremely worthwhile work and Craven is pleased to have been
able to make their work a little easier by helping to give them what they need.
The 2020 Poppy Appeal will run from Thursday 22nd October to Wednesday 11th November.
To find out more about the Royal British Legion or to support them by making a donation, visit
their website: https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/ .
The right shelving can be a godsend to so many businesses in a range of industries. Whether you work in
catering, medical, education or retail sectors to name but a few, wire shelving is a must and comes with
a complete range of different uses and benefits.
Wire shelving from Craven & Co. continues to be praised for its high quality and durability. When
showcasing products or storing stock, you need a product you can trust for a safe, organised
environment. To help you make the right decision when it comes to storage and handling products,
we’ve put together a few benefits as well as a case study of the products we’ve provided for our clients.
Just how versatile is wire shelving?
Here are just some of the ways in which different sectors can benefit from wire shelving:
Maintains desired temperatures
When certain products or pieces of equipment need to be kept at the right temperature, wire shelving
can maintain great ventilation through all shelving levels, preventing overheating or temperature
changes. Take our Stainless Steel Wire Shelving for example. It’s suitable for a wide range of uses
including general dry storage, refrigeration, freezers (medical and catering sectors in particular) and
retail displays. No matter your requirements, speak to us and we’ll be happy to help.
Visibility of stock
The retail sector has a continuous need for shop floor storage, and wire shelving is the go-to, not only
for retail product displays, but for stockroom storage too. Wire shelving creates a safe and secure
storage space for stock and provides high visibility for browsing customers on a shop floor. Wire shelving
is also easy to clean and maintain, making it the perfect solution for retail as well as many other
industries too.
Shelf capacity
With Craven wire shelving in particular, you will always be able to find the sizes you need, without
compromising on quality or durability. Available in 3 or 4 tiers with a stainless steel or nylon finish,
Craven shelving can cater for a range of needs and desired capacities, and also comes with fixed
increment grooved posts with two piece gripper system for easy configuration.
Endless storage solutions
From commercial catering and medical, to retail and the public sector, wire shelving is perfect for all
storage requirements. We recognise that space is a key issue in many sectors, and we therefore make
products and systems that utilise the space in an innovative and highly efficient way. Our modular
systems give you the flexibility to extend or modify your storage space according to your requirements.
Our case studies
Our Nylon wire shelving was used to populate a cold room for one of our customers selling Christmas
turkeys. As this was an important job around Christmas time, we had to act fast. We filled up one of our
vans and travelled to Northumbria, which is around 100 miles away from Craven HQ. The wire shelving
was immediately constructed and fully stocked after delivery, with the immense weight of these turkeys
still being well below the maximum weight load. Not only does this show the strength and durability of
our wire shelving, but also how quickly we can act as a business in times of need! Find out more about
our British shelving for British turkeys.
Speak to us about our wire shelving today
With so many shelving options available on the market today, it goes without saying that research is a
must. However, the ideal shelving products are not always a million miles away. If you’d like more
information about our British-made wire shelving or have any questions at all, get in touch with the
Craven team today on 01423 796 200 or email us at info@craven-solutions.com. We’re always happy to
help!
We love to support charities close to our hearts, and each year, we support these charities through fundraisers and events. In September, we’ll be supporting Prostate Cancer UK once again, raising money for their admirable work for men across the UK who are suffering from prostate cancer, and who need life saving treatments.
Prostate Cancer UK’s top priority is funding research to stop prostate cancer taking lives. They’re investing millions to find better treatments and better tests that can spot fast-growing cancers early, and could be used in a screening programme to save thousands of lives.
How are we supporting the charity?
Craven & Co. have been supporting Prostate Cancer UK for years and in many different ways, and this is mainly through fundraising events such as golf days, sports dinners, and other similar events. This year, we are once again supporting the charity through golf days, the most recent of which will take place on the 11th of September at Shipley Golf Club.
As well as these fundraising days, we also donate and distribute Prostate Cancer UK’s ‘Man’ pins to visitors and customers to further support them, and we also provide a space at Craven HQ, where the charity holds their stock.
We’ll always continue to be a keen supporter of this charity over the years to come, so keep an eye out for all our other charity fundraiser events in the future! If you’d like to do your part to support Prostate Cancer UK, you can do so on their website here.
As leading designers and manufacturers of storage and handling equipment within the UK, we know how important it is to get our brand just right. To ensure we’re doing all we can to further increase our brand awareness and affinity, we’ve introduced the ‘Craven Refresh’ campaign, in which we’ll aim to highlight the evolution of Craven Solutions from a heritage brand to a leading manufacturer, as well as take the necessary steps to grow our product range and partnerships with other globally reputable brands.
The Craven Refresh will aim to promote the value of our ‘solution’ to storage and handling problems. We want to express further that our products are of a high-quality and our brand being the trusted and dependable option over the cheapest and quickest. Our new creative campaign will also include a number of new themes, including new staff and restructuring, partnerships and products ranges. By connecting all these themes together, we can promote the right ‘solution’ for our customers, and further highlight that we are the ‘go-to’ company for storage and handling solutions.
The refresh will primarily focus on the foodservice, hospitality and healthcare sectors, including restaurant groups and care facilities, which are the essential sectors of operation for our solution of products. We will continue to promote the value of our complete solution and just what these solutions can provide for our customers, as well as the route we have taken and our historical image.
What can you expect to see from the Craven Refresh?
The refresh will bring an exciting new media campaign, including informational additions to our blog, website and social media platforms, focusing on company and product developments and how you can make the most of your Craven products. Internally, we’ll be improving our email, advertising and PR campaigns, being on top of latest news and product announcements and ensuring you know about these as soon as possible.
Our refresh campaign will run throughout the remainder of the year, in which time we will assess and reassess our focus based on how things are looking and what our current focus has been. The Craven Refresh campaign will showcase our continual growth as a business and in our range of storage and handling products. We want more and more dealers and customers to see our brand as the ‘go-to’ for these products, and that by choosing a Craven product, you can be confident that you’re also choosing the highest of quality.
The future of Craven Solutions
With more products than ever before in our extensive range and a collection of respectable partners on board, we’re in the best position we’ve ever been to offer our customers the storage and handling solutions they need. However, with the implementation of the Craven Refresh, we’re confident that we will continue to grow our range and customer base to cover new industries and welcome new partners into our already expanding network.
Watch this space…
We’re excited for our new plans and can’t wait to share our new developments with you! If you’re in need of storage and handling solutions for your business, or you need any help or advice about our products, browse our website or get in touch with a member of the Craven team by calling 01423 796 200 or emailing us at info@craven-solutions.com.
Coronavirus – Covid-19 – Customer & Supplier Update
As part of our group efforts to protect our workforce and assist in the potential spread of the Coronavirus ( Covid-19) Craven & Co have put measures in place which include sanitiser stations (gel/handwipes) on all entrances to our site, put extra cleaning in place, introduced one way systems and full social distancing measures throughout the site as well as working with all members of staff to restrict travel where appropriate and to be debriefed on any arrivals back into the UK before returning to site.
All visitors must confirm they are free of symptoms and have not recently returned from high risk areas before entering the site. We are currently not accepting visitor unless absolutely necessary.
We are also monitoring all members of staff and have literature throughout the site detailing symptom recognition and self-isolating
As a result of the World Health Organisation’s recommendations on quarantine due to the ongoing outbreak of Coronavirus affecting nations throughout the world – Craven & Co is monitoring its suppliers to minimise the potential impact on its obligations to customers as the spread of Covid 19 is worldwide.
As more information becomes available, we will contact any customer affected by the disruption if alternative arrangements cannot be made. For further information please Contact us
Here at Craven Solutions, we’re well known for creating storage and handling solutions to make life much easier for those working in a range of different industries. From catering and health care, to retail and the public sector, we believe each and every industry should benefit from exactly what we have to offer.However, the act of product assembly can mean hours, if not days of hard work for businesses, and many may even put off purchasing pieces of much needed storage and handling equipment for this reason alone. Thankfully, Craven Solutions offer these industries a much more beneficial approach to storage and handling equipment with our pre-assembled products or quick product assembly, meaning that your new products can be ready to use in a flash.
We have a wide range of quick assembly products which are not only fast and simple to construct, but which are also made from durable, high-quality stainless steel, aluminum and nylon wire too. As well as this, our pre assembled range of products will enable you to start using them straight away upon delivery.
Quick assembly products
Our range of shelving units in particular are easy to assemble thanks to how we manufacture them. We take great care in ensuring that pieces fit together perfectly, shelves slide into place effortlessly, and the end result is something you’re proud to use in your establishment. Products such as our Nylon Wire Shelving and our Stainless Steel Wire Shelving feature fixed increment grooved posts with a two piece gripper system for easy configuration. We’ve made everything you can think of easier, so our customers have the best experience, from purchase to usage.
As well as giving our customers a simple way to install our products in their establishment, they’ll also find it easy to adapt them to their needs as well as increase their holding capacity if needed. If you need any more advice about our products, or if you need something more bespoke, we’ve got you covered. Feel free to contact us with any questions!
Pre assembled products
We also have a range of trolleys, including our General Purpose Trolley and our Tray Dispense Trolley, that are designed, created and manufactured by us and delivered fully welded, eliminating the need for self assembly. Again, these products can be designed and manufactured to specific requirements, so let us know if you need a pre assembled product for a specific purpose. As with everything we make, we work with trusted British suppliers to offer high quality at low cost and with short lead times, even for Bespoke and OEM items.
Choose Craven for your storage and handling solutions
Craven & Co Ltd offers high quality British-made storage and handling solutions at competitive prices, and we are the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of shelving, racking, trolleys and wirework products. For more information, or if you have any questions about the way we work, get in touch with a member of the Craven team today by calling us on 01423 796 200 or emailing info@craven-solutions.com.
The storage and handling market is growing, and it’s important to know which products you can trust to do the job properly. As the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of shelving, racking, trolleys and wirework products, Craven focuses on a range of industries and we pride ourselves on our high quality manufacturing process and end result.
To give you a better understanding of our product tiers and what you can expect, we’ve put together some information about our ranges to help you make the right decisions when choosing storage and handling products.
Evolve range
Evolve products bring more affordable prices to the storage and handling market. The manufacturer’s aim of Evolve products is to provide customers with flexible and comprehensive storage & handling equipment which is self assembled. The Evolve range is flatpack/knockdown for ease of build, making it easy to to transport if needed. Simple products and simple solutions, but great value to help you show your products in a way that looks the part for customers and doesn’t break the bank.
Craven products
Craven & Co Ltd offers high quality, British-made storage and handling solutions at competitive prices, including trolleys that are fully welded. Using our expertise and experience of more than 60 years, combined with the latest technologies, we offer space-saving design and innovation in storage and handling, making us the ideal choice for a range of sectors, from catering and healthcare, to retail and education.
Cambro range
Cambro Manufacturing are leading global manufacturers who offer a range of premium plastic storage & handling equipment for the foodservice and medical industries. Cambro’s products are a perfect fit with Craven’s current premium range of storage, handling and shelving products. The synergy doesn’t end there, with both Craven and Cambro sharing similar backgrounds steeped in decades of manufacturing history.
We recognise the need for the Cambro range here in the UK, which is why we’re proud distributors of Cambro Manufacturing products. At the moment, we stock Camshelving Elements and Premium series products and there are plans to grow this range throughout the year.
See Craven’s entire range of storage and handling products
To ensure you find exactly what you need, our website showcases our wide range of products so you can compare what you need and purchase with ease. For more information about what we do here at Craven or if you have any questions about our range of products, you can get in touch with a member of the team today by calling us on 01423 796 200 or by emailing info@craven-solutions.com.
Here at Craven Solutions, we use our expertise and experience of more than 60 years to design bespoke solutions for a wide range of clients. We ensure our team is up to date on the knowledge and with the latest technologies to ensure our work can be completed to the best possible standard for exceptional customer satisfaction.
We pride ourselves on our ability to create complete bespoke solutions for a range of industries and over the years, we’ve helped a variety of clients with essential work. Here are just some of the bespoke solutions we have created to make the lives of those in a variety of sectors easier.
IV Drip Stands and Nylon Shelving for the NHS
Throughout the last few months, we’ve created a number of products in larger volumes to assist the NHS in their admirable work throughout the global pandemic. We were asked to manufacture IV drip stands for use in the NHS Nightingale hospitals around the country and more recently, we’re helping the NHS once again with Nylon shelving to be used in large freezers. These freezers will store blood plasma for COVID-19 testing in order to help find a cure. We are once again very proud to be supporting the NHS in the nation’s fight against the pandemic.
Commercial solutions
Over the years, we’ve had commercial requests that required a completely different approach to the norm, resulting in bespoke customised dimensions and configurations which our staff have excelled at throughout the manufacturing process. From shelving and space-saving units with very specific requirements to wire products for wire-ware, refrigeration, ovenware, catering and retail sectors, to name but a few, we’ve given our clients a complete bespoke solution to their needs.
Whichever industry you’re in and whatever project you want to accomplish, Craven Solutions can help you get there. All our products are designed and manufactured at our UK premises, meaning we remain hands-on throughout the whole process to ensure that the final product meets and even exceeds your expectations.
Speak to Craven Solutions for bespoke and OEM items
As with every product we make, we work with trusted British suppliers to offer high quality at a low cost. We offer short lead times and are able to provide small batch and larger product volumes thanks to our UK manufacturing facility and network of local partners.
For more information about bespoke solutions or if you need any further information about what we do here at Craven, speak to a member of our team today by calling 01423 796 200 or emailing us at
info@craven-solutions.com.
